Stellar evolution. III - The overshooting from convective cores

Computer Science – Numerical Analysis

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Convective Flow, Mixing Length Flow Theory, Stellar Evolution, Stellar Structure, Astronomical Models, Equations Of Motion, Iterative Solution, Numerical Analysis, Stellar Mass

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Boundaries of and overshooting from stellar convective cores are investigated. Convection in stellar cores is calculated explicitly with nonlocal expressions of the mixing-length formalism, and an iterative process is proposed for the simultaneous integration of the equations of stellar structure and those describing convective motions. This method is applied to a chemically homogeneous model of a star of two solar masses. The results show that the zone of overshooting extends over 15 per cent of the mixing length, that changes by a factor of two or more in the efficiency factors of the mixing-length formalism do not have very much effect on overshooting, and that the location of the zero-age sequence for a given chemical composition is not modified by overshooting from convective cores.

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